Old-time Music And Dance
Subtitle: Community And Folk Revival (Quarry Books)
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: September 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780253346384
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Folk music; Music; Music/Songbooks; North Central & Mid-West states; Ethnic; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; History & Criticism - General; Bloomington; Country-dance; History; History and criticism; Indiana; Old-time music
Description: "In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately void of structure and authority. In this book, John Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group - how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to shape and influence new waves of traditional music and dance. Broader questions about the folk revival movement, social resistance, counterculture, authenticity, and identity intersect this delightful history.

More than a story about the people who forged the group or an extraordinary convergence of talent and creativity, Old-Time Music and Dance follows the threads of American folk culture and the social experience generated by this living tradition of music and dance."--BOOK JACKET.